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The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-214) and index

Tourism, cloth, and culture -- Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca -- The cloth of contemporary Incas -- Transforming value by commoditizing cloth -- Visit Taquile--Isle of peace and enchantment -- Weaving a future? -- Traveling to Taquile

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